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——Corgi Los Angeles from "One Night on Earth" At 7:07 p.m., Corgi drove passengers through the hazy night in Los Angeles.
Corgi is an ordinary taxi driver who drives a night drive on the edge of life. This night, she meets Victoria, a passenger who has entered the upper class of the movie circle. The taxi driver Corgi under Jarmusch's lens has a strong identity opposition to the passenger Victoria. It happened in a short-lived encounter that seemed accidental and inevitable in daily life. Victoria gave Corgi an opportunity to enter the upper class, and Corgi Give Victoria a crash on the web of meaning.
It is difficult for a person to understand another person who grows in different soils, stands in a different position, and has a very different web of meaning from his own. But there is no fixed shape in life, and dreams are everyone's exclusive right.
Corgi, a young girl, although petite in stature, looks like a tomboy, wearing a cap, a cigarette in her ear, and wide clothes, as if she hung the entire toolbox on her trousers. She always liked to smoke while chewing gum while driving.
Corgi arrived at the airport with drunk passengers, then got out of the car and called the boss at the phone booth to communicate the status of the car. At this time, Victoria, who had just got off the plane, carried a lot of luggage and communicated with her work affairs on her mobile phone while walking to the exit. In the taxi drop-off area, the two people who were complaining the same "Damn" after hanging up the phone turned around and looked at each other. Seeing this, Corgi solicited business, "Do you need a taxi?"
A taxi driver and a scout passenger meet seemingly by chance and necessity.
Victoria: She's just a taxi driver
Corgi drove Victoria to Beverly Hills. From time to time, I observed this graceful and luxurious passenger through the rear-view mirror.
On the way, Victoria needed to stop and go to the box in the trunk to get the phone book to check the hotel number. The enthusiastic Corgi gave Victoria the yellow pages of the phone that was placed under her butt to increase the height.
The filmmakers were not satisfied with the casting choices provided by Victoria. They needed an 18-year-old girl who had no acting experience but was on the scene. Victoria, who was worried about this, added emotional confusion. After hanging up the phone, she looked depressed. Corky tried to chat with her and made her laugh with a joke.
In Victoria's eyes, Corgi is a perceptive, helpful, kind and enthusiastic taxi driver.
Victoria: She might be the right person
After a brief chat, Corgi caught a glimpse of Victoria from the rearview mirror and took out a cigarette, and took the initiative to light it for her. Victoria, who was sitting behind the co-pilot, leaned forward to try to get to know the carefree girl and told her to smoke too much.
"You're really happy driving a taxi, aren't you?"
"Certainly being a taxi driver is a cool job."
"Is driving a taxi the goal of your life?"
"What's wrong with that?"
After a brief silence, Corgi told her thoughts about the future: "I don't want to be a taxi driver all my life, I want to be a mechanic."
Corgi knows everything about machinery. Her two older brothers are mechanics, but because she is a girl and still too young, she still needs to continue her studies. Under Victoria's inquiry, Corgi shared her thoughts on marriage and family with her innocence and transparency.
In the chat with Corgi, Victoria felt that she was neither humble nor arrogant, open-minded, open-minded, not rigid, with a pure and innocent youth, and there was no lack of unique and transparent ideas. Victoria, who was worried about her work, found that Corgi might be the right person she was looking for. candidate.
She began to look closely at Corgi's face through the rear-view mirror. Victoria, who seemed to have picked up a treasure, snickered, unable to restrain the happy expression on the ground.
Victoria: Is she a fool?
After arriving at the destination, Victoria revealed to Corgi that she was a talent scout. She was looking for a role candidate for a big movie. Through observation and understanding along the way, she believed that Corgi had great potential and was in line with the producer's expectations. demanded, and Victoria even promised that she could become a movie star.
Corgi told her bluntly "I don't want to be a star." She was content with her current job and didn't want to lose it. Victoria hears Corgi's rejection, arguing that she doesn't understand what kind of opportunity she's offering her, and Corgi reiterates her dream of becoming a mechanic.
Corgi's idea seemed silly to Victoria, who persuaded Corgi to become a mechanic after becoming a movie star. It was probably the first time in her life that she had met someone who wasn't interested in being a movie star, and Victoria was disbelieving, even a little frustrated.
Victoria: She is the sober guardian of dreams
Corgi did not doubt the authenticity of this good news, and knew that Victoria's invitation was serious. Maybe everyone wants to be a movie star, but being a movie star is too dreamy for Corgi, that's not her real life. Even though that is the dream of many girls, she has her own life plan and is happy to be content with the status quo.
After Victoria and Corgi said their goodbyes, they watched her drive away. Incomprehensible, inconceivable, and being touched by something, as if the web of his own meaning was hit, these feelings are mixed together.
After standing there for a while, she carried some of her suitcases to her residence, and the urging phone rang again in the briefcase. She was about to go back to answer the phone, but she ignored the phone with a "whatever" mentality, perhaps with Corgi. The encounter doesn't change anything in Victoria, but the interrogation from the depths of the web of meaning, along with the chance encounter with Corgi, remains in her memory.
Maybe we in front of the screen will also betray her choice, but Corgi can confidently refuse the very tempting opportunity, and will not regret what she has missed in the future, because she knows the life she wants to have in her heart. It's her life's longing. Corgi's determination to dream is parallel to her own detachment.
Dreams are not the decoration of life, nor the supplement of destiny. In the value bubble created by interests and desires, even dreams are measured according to their actual value.
Jarmusch attaches his wandering complex to the calm characters and stories under the almost line-drawn film lens. Corgi's refusal in "One Night on Earth" conveys our philosophy that "life has no fixed shape".
There was a previous post "If you don't consider income and face, what job would you most like to do?"
One reply stood out to me:
Just like the lines in "The Hundred Days Farewell": "There is a job in New Zealand. There is a man who, when it rains, will take helicopters to patrol the grasslands. He wants to find those sheep that fall on the ground, because the wool of those sheep sucks in the rain. Too much water and it'll fall to the ground and won't get up. He's going to find the sheep and pick them up one by one and shake them to shake the rain off them."
People with dreams are the most precious, and dreams under the net of social reality sometimes feel powerless to even speak out. Living according to one's own will is something that is not so socially permissible.
May you have your own life aspirations, be content with the life you have and be as happy as possible.
This article was first published on the WeChat public account [I used to live so lonely]
Author: Zhaomu Shouzo
Not everyone wants to be a movie star
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